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George, or Georgianna, as the case may be, was accompanied by a letter obviously written in Radcliffe script, in which the renegade mother stated that she had decided to abandon her columba to the CRIMSON as "a candidate to usurp the power of the infamous Ibis...
...after the war, regardless of which side wins, is the grim picture painted by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology. "Whether it is changed on paper or not," he said, "the Constitution of the United States will be radically altered in the post-war period. America will probably even abandon the two-party system of government...
...more than 60 years of research by scores of chemists, nobody has yet precisely determined its structure-what atoms in what pattern form its molecule. But when the theory is cleared up, useful applications will follow thick & fast. Reason: chemists will know what they are working with and can abandon the essentially trial-&-error methods now forced upon them. Chief center of molecular lignin research is the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison...
Funerals became strangely frequent. Always first in processions was Pierre Guichard, dignified beadle of the Cérilly church. Next, the cure, sprinkling holy water with an energy suggesting joyous abandon. Behind him came the coffin bearers, their spirits lighter than the heavy box they bore. Then the black-veiled mourners, bearing their grief with an odd furtiveness...
When World War II began to inundate the world, he began to think about west ern civilization. He evolved a panacea, full of the gusty notions of Oswald Spengler. He proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...